Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: osagejack on March 07, 2013, 01:42:49 pm
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does anyone have special tools to chase rings, such as character staves or staves with valleys,, I discovered a new tool for staves with valleys and around knots and holes,,it is a spoon plane,,for me it takes place of gooseneck scraper, cleaning out valleys in staves, what used to take an hour now takes minutes,, anybody elese have any special tools?
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here are three crook knives that i use when needed
(http://i878.photobucket.com/albums/ab346/sadiejane9/wss%20spoon/DSCN63988.jpg)
top one is a very old wooding working knife from an alaskan native
middle is a custom made crook knife i designed and had made, mostly for working bows
bottom is yr standard mora crook knife-the mora needs lots of reprofiling and sharpening to be very useful but they are cheap
have used all three for bow making at different times.
also have a curvy cabinet scraper that works well for some applications.
and another homemade scraper that i have ground one edge round and sharpened
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I did fairly well on the last one with my new adz !
A friend custom smithed it for me special for this propose !
It has a curved and cupped blade !
Made from an old railroad spike !
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I use shavehooks. Jawge
http://georgeandjoni.home.comcast.net/~georgeandjoni/osage.html
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those shave hooks are great, I like the spoon plane because u can set it real fine and it wont dig n to far, it seems like every stave I have has a valley in it somewhere
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I use my drawknife for the lions share, I clean out divets with the round corner of my scraper and then I use 80 grit wrapped around my finger to get the real nasty spots. I like those "scoopers" Ms. Sadie.